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Helen Barlow Editor & Author

Trevor Herbert has written extensively on the cultural history of instrumental music, especially brass instruments in various periods and social contexts, and co-edited the award-winning Cambridge Encyclopedia of Brass Instruments (2018). He has also written on the cultural history of music in Wales. He was co-editor of the seven-volume Welsh History and its Sources series. Martin V. Clarke has published widely on the relationships between music, theology and religious practice, including the monograph British Methodist Hymnody: Theology, Heritage, and Experience (2018) and the edited collection Music and Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2012). He was a co-investigator on the AHRC-funded Listening Experience Database project. Helen Barlow researches around the intersections between history, music, literature and visual art. As a member of the Listening Experience Database project, she investigated the history of ordinary people's experiences of music. Her publications include Music and the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century (2013), co-written with Trevor Herbert.